Owner Steven Ross’ team was the league's laughingstock in the offseason, a club that mishandled more coaching and quarterback calls in the span of a few months than most teams do in a number of years.

Appearing on HBO's Hard Knocks, with timid first-year head coach Joe Philbin uncomfortably releasing Chad Johnson and CB Vontae Davis infamously wanting to call his grandmother after being informed he was being traded, didn’t help.

I’ll tell you what has helped, though: Ryan Tannehill looking like the first man capable of potentially filling the massive shoes of Dan Marino, and one of the league’s most underrated defenses stymieing offenses with regularity. Don’t sleep on the 4-3 Dolphins, a team that has no quit and no concern for what others think.

We may be 4-3, but that's only because of a couple of bad kicks. We're two fieldgoals away from having one of the best records in the NFL. If we can keep doing what we're doing, we'll be in the hunt for the division when it's all said and done.